Much as it pains me to do it – considering how freakin’ LONG it took for a simple request to be put into effect – I have to give a, enthusiastic Valentine to Levy Restaurants, the official concessionaire for Qwest Field, which has finally, after four solid years of ranting on my part, managed to increase the number and volume of locally-produced beers available at Qwest. …

As some of you guys may know – if you have so little to do that you’d read my bio attached to the blog – I design wine labels as a sideline. This morning, as usual, I got up at 0-dark-30 and was listening to KJR’s “Live at 5” with Dick Fain, when they mentioned the 1.1 seismic tremor caused by Marshawn Lynch’s run and I heard an intracranial click. This is what resulted: Yeah, yeah, Fain fudged the numbers by .1 but so what? This is playoff football and every fan blows up numbers. I just liked the … …

I was there. I saw the whole thing. I was screaming a good bit of the time, so I may have missed a few things but my eyes were relentlessly pointed toward the on-field action because, as with a train wreck from which everyone miraculously walks away, it was impossible not to watch. …

So, I’m 58 years old, white, live in Bellevue, sell wine for a living, and have eight grandkids. So, how is it that I’m sitting here at 8:49 on a Wednesday morning, tears streaming down my cheeks so flippin’ hard that I can barely type, watching a google news clip of a black man in Ohio who has been homeless for a couple of decades and is finally catching a break? …

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